Word: moneys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bruises, etc. Col. Lindbergh does not read the newspapers. He often has black and blue spots on his back, caused by mauling crowds. At first, he had difficulty in getting money for his transatlantic flight. "He even went to the makers of a famous cigaret and asked them to finance the flight to Paris in a plane bearing the name of their cigaret." So said Lieut. Maitland...
...work of the editorial department will consist of gathering material on sports, literary works, musical clubs, and other such activities and later in writing them up in suitable form for the Red Book. The business competition covers a variety of subjects, such as advertising, circulating, and handling of money. The photographic and art committees will consist of drawing and photographic work and also clerical work
Some say that when a man enters a university he has reached the age when it is up to him to decide whether he is to make the most of his time spent there or whether he is to fritter it away, together with his family's money. This, they say, is the principle on which English universities operate, and toward which Harvard has been inclining...
...ruled for nine years. His palace of Sans Souci had a brook that ran under it to cool the rooms. He imported two ladies from Philadelphia to take care of his children. With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot...
...awful). There is no market in South Africa for fitful canvases. Finally, he leaves home, finds a job in the coal mines near Johannesburg. When he hears that his mother is threatened with cancer, he blows off three fingers of his right hand so that he can collect insurance money to send his mother to a reliable doctor in England. That is the end of the story...